Originally Posted By: Orac
1) The 2nd law doesn't apply to things in the QM uncertainty realm. I would really like to go read and look at what happens with entangled particles because this woudl imply you could use them for lossless transmission across vast distances a fact I find both weird and facinating.

Physicists who work with quantum entanglement tend to dismiss the possibility of faster than light (FTL) communication using entanglement, but then Einstein tried to dismiss quantum entanglement completely. I have an interesting book about entanglement, but don't have access to it right now. My daughter has it. I will probably get it back in a couple of weeks, when I go see her. The book is "The Dance of the Photons" by Anton Zeilinger. In it Zeilinger clearly shows why it won't work, assuming that he is right. I figure he is probably right, but then I don't like to lock myself into a position when it comes to advanced scientific ideas. People keep coming up with new ways to bypass the built in limitation.

Bill Gill


C is not the speed of light in a vacuum.
C is the universal speed limit.